Coral relive three classic Arsenal v Reading clashes in 2012/13

Championship club Reading (12/1 to win in 90 minutes with Coral) face FA Cup holders Arsenal (2/9 odds-on favourites) in the semi-finals at Wembley on Saturday teatime, in an occasion that is expected to produce goals galore.

Ahead of the clash, Coral writers go back a few years to the 2012/13 season where these two teams met three times.

We relive the action, where those encounters produced an incredible 24 goals (average of eight per game). You can take terrific odds of 8/1 for the match total to be over 5.5.

Reading 5-7 Arsenal: Capital One Cup (October 30th 2012)
Perhaps one of the greatest game in League Cup, and even footballing, history. Less-fancied Reading shocked the Gunners in this last 16 clash, as they took a 4-0 lead after just 37 minutes.

However, Theo Walcott got a crucial goal just on the stoke of half time to give his side some hope. The Gunners brought it back to 4-2 thanks to Olivier Giroud’s effort (the Frenchman is odds-on at 8/11 to net anytime again), and their remarkable comeback was compete with two very late goals from Laurent Koscienly and Walcott again.

Reading’s confidence were clearly dented as they went into extra time, especially as Marouane Chamakh made it 5-4, but Pavel Pogrebnyak gave them a moment of hope it the 116th minute by heading home.

But Walcott (7/1 to score two or more) capped off a magical individual display by hitting his hat-trick and effectively winning the game after the 120 minutes were up. Chamakh soon after fired in to bag a brace to take the match goal total to 12.

Arsene Wenger’s men are fantastic 7/1 shouts to win in extra time again.